Yahoo appoints Google exec Marissa Mayer as new CEO

Jeremy Hobson: Yahoo has a new CEO. 37-year-old Marissa Mayer will become the company's fifth chief executive in five years. She's a longtime Google exec and an architect of what the tech world calls the 'Google User Experience.'

Marketplace's Scott Tong reports.

Scott Tong: Marissa Mayer's design fingerprints are on Google's clean, white homepage, and signature search box, and Google's brand new local feature which suggests nearby restaurants -- in my case Sushitaro, $59 for dinner. Navigating Google is pretty smooth. But Yahoo -- not so much. Is it a place for email? Chat? Mortgage rate shopping?

Lindsey Turrentine at CNET Review says Mayer could fix that.

Lindsey Turrentine: Yahoo's assets are sort of all over the place, and she has experience connecting different parts of a business. She's been very involved in the Google doodles that show up on the Google homepage. She can bring a lot of that type of skill to Yahoo, to sort of humanize what's going on there.